OPEN FOR BUSINESS; Shopping On Both Sides Of the Hudson

By ANNA BAHNEY

Published: February 9, 2006

NAVE, a boutique owned by Onward Kashiyama, the Japanese apparel company, is to open on Saturday in SoHo. Based on the idea of bringing the eclecticism of a specialty store to a single collection, Nave (below) will offer women's apparel created by a group of designers, invited to create items like sportswear, outerwear or accessories each season.

The designer Richard Chai is acting as the consulting creative director of the boutique. Other design houses taking part include Barking Irons, Lincoln Mayne and Alice & Olivia of New York; Industry Rag and Ed Hardy of Los Angeles; and Rohka of Milan. Dresses, skirts, handmade knits, woven shirts, light outerwear and accessories are available from $50 to $500. At 159 Mercer Street, near West Houston Street, (212) 274-1255.

On the Lower East Side a little shop devoted to travel, chocolate and other obsessions has opened. The store, called itsasickness (above), has leather tote bags, journals, wallets and T-shirts (with slogans like ''I Can't Stop Winning'') and chocolate by Vosges ranging from dark milk chocolate with 41 percent cacao to dark chocolate with 75 percent cacao. At 132a Ludlow Street, at Rivington Street, (212) 995-9171.

The Apple Store continues to take its products to the suburbs. A new outpost carrying Apple computers, printers and software as well as iPods and their accessories opened Saturday at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J.

The store looks much like the other Apple Stores dotting the country -- white and minimalist -- with a genius bar to cozy up to for tech support and a space for workshops in using the products.

Workshops at the Paramus store over the next three days include using software like iLife '06, a multimedia program; iWork '06, a document layout program; iTunes; and Garage Band, a music-mixing program. (201) 975-9500. ANNA BAHNEY

Photos (Photo by John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times); (Photo by Digi Foto)